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TOKYO, March 4- Any effort to add rules against currency cheating in a 12- nation Pacific trade pact would mean the end of negotiations, a senior Japanese negotiator said on Tuesday. Some U.S. lawmakers are pushing for a currency chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is near completion, partly due to concerns about a weak Japanese yen.

As oil nears $100, investors try to figure out whether President Obama will release oil from the country's strategic petroleum reserve, with CNBC's Melissa Lee, the Money In Motion traders and Citi's Eric Lee.